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0 ISCELLANEOUS.
From the Mvercunj.
M dito.-1 -have seen with some
appreb~niion tie remarks of your Wash
-- ogidn;Correspondent in regard to the
- irohibl-course of the Administration in
fulfillingtheir iledge to reduce the tariff
toise . venue'standard.
-To relievesyself from the fears excited
by those remarks, I .addressed a letter to
.General MeDuffie, who I knew had gro.t
personal confidence in President l'olk. to
.ascertaim.his opinion ot the subject, and
received inanswer the following commnu
-cation, which is very satisfactory to me,
and I think will be to the public.,
If -you concur in this opinion, I hope
you will give it a place in your paper.
Cur HY.ILL, Sept. 27, 1845.
My Dear Siir-You' ask me whether,
in my opinion, "it be possible, that the
.conjeclures of the Washington Corres
pon'dent of the Charleston Mercury can
Ie true,.i, relatign to the probable course
.oJ,.dgdininistration of Mr. Polk in the
djustmen: Qf the tariff," and whether
-0sucla -courie would nout be a palpable
violation of the pledge to reduce the du
ties to the Terenue standard.
In answer to these enquiries,
e d
the:sec-Oldil plac , dnt ihe coute r S'
-cribe to the- Adtinistratiot would ho a
"palpable violation of the pledge to re
-duce the duties upon foreigt imports to
the revenue standard." and of all the
pledges of the party by n hich Mr. Polk
was elected.
A brief esposition of the true principles
-of a revenue tariff and a reference to Mr.
Polk's Inaugural'Address, will be sufficient
I think, to banish your apprehensions. It
is obvious to remark that a revenue tarifl,
is the lowest rate of duty upon every for
eign import that will raise the required
amount of revenue. The smallest addi
tion to that rate upon any one article with
a view to increase the price of its dotnes
tie rival, is " plainly and intentionally" a
protective, as contradistinguished from a
revenue duty. But, if the additional duty
not only enhances the price of both the
foreign and domestic article, hut diminish
es the revenue. it would be the most bare
faced mockery-the most impudent and
hypocritical disguise by which a mercena
ry and merciless oppression ever attempt
ed to conceal its deformity, to call this a
revenue duty. Now it is only necessary
to apply these plain, if not self-evident
propositions, to the articles which it is Ite
supposed intention of the Administration
to favor and protect, by exempting them
from the general rule of reduction. Take
for example the two leading articles of
sugar and iron. Next to salt, these are
-arttcles of'. the most general consumption
by all classes of people. .
Inna great fintancial and economical re
form, ieducing the duties upon foreign im
1por.ts to a general average of 20 per cent,
upon what principle of-justice, equtily or
sound-policy, upon what shadow of con
stitutional power, can a rate of duty be
imposed upon these articles, higher titan
thegeneral rate necessary for revettue, at
the same time adding to the public bur
dens andidiminishing the public revenue ?
Is it because sugar and iron are produced
by a few wealthy sugar plantters and iron
masters, not equal in number to one in a
hundred thousand of those who consunme
thie articles and pay fromt the pockets of
nediocrity and, poverty, the contributions
* xtorted by a free .government-atnd let
.me not say-a Democratic Admtinismra
tion-to add to the fort utes of a monied
oligarchyT Can it be believed, tat Mr.
Polk, bound by the united ties of interest
and duty to sustain the great principles of
free trade and unshackled industry, which
he. has so ably supported through a long
course of puble servit'e; will now, wvhen
elected 'o the 'highest .station to, which
ambition ora patisiotism can aspire. betray
bie polittcal principles atud sacrifice those
-popular masses, by. whose voluntary at-J
unsolkiiedisuffrages he. was raised to--pow
er ?&* Itnet not the tale.''-- In~ his In
augtfral Address -ho very distinctly lays
dawndtieddotrine that revetnue is the-ob-.
ject of-all- dustiesl upon' imports, and pro~
tection the incident--.-'
*Nothing -can abe- more -plain.-. If-pro
teetion to particular classes,t the erpenise
all othersresults from a revenue duty-as
it does from all revenue. duties -.it is -an
-unavoidatile itncident not to i e desired but
regr'etted. It ris impossIble to- separate
4hie -proiectiot) given to the sugplsantei-,
for ewnmale, by even a rovenun diury 'o
20 per tent, from the twooloud burden im
posed upon every body else, not only by
-raising to the consumers the price.Qt tm
ported sugar which yields a revenue equal
to the burden, but, the price of domestic
eugar,. which imposes an equal burthen
sndyields no revenue. It is this last re
suilf,-hic unjustly trausfers 'the money
of the many to the pockets of the few,
which constitutes- the incidental "protec
tion of a revenue duty-a result whicb so
far from being d.esirable io the people at
large, can only be regarded as a oublic
evil unavoidably rasulting 'from Pu une
qual system of taxation.
Noir lei us suppose the duties upo! all
foreign imports, including sugar and iron,
reduced to a revenue sianard o1*20 per
ceri, and take up the case.ol" sugar plan
ters and iron masters at this point. What
ground would they have to complain of
such an adjustment of: the duties upon
imports? Coild they pretend that ny
one of these duties imposed a burien
upon them not equally imposed upon the
body .' the people ? The whole of the so
duties wsould operate precisely upon them
as upon, others, with the exception of the
duties 'ipon sngar and iron, and these
while they would. operate as taxes upon
all the rest of the people, would operate
as bounties.to them. equal to twenty per
cent., upon the whole amount of sugar
and iron they produced for sale. Sup
pose, for example, a sugar planter of
Louisiania produces sugar annually to the
amount of fifty thousand dollars-proba
bly a fair average, and an iron master of
Pennsylvania, iron to the same anou.a.
The amount of other imported and pro
tected articles consumed by eacti, certain
ly would not exceed ten thousand dollars.
Thus under a revenue tariff these injured
citizens would have to pay 20 per cent on
$10,000. equal to $2,000 to the govern
inent and tit their confederate monopolists,
and would only receive. 20 per cent on
$80,000, eilual to $10,000. from the great
body of the people! Their ground of
complait,. then. against the levelling e
quality of a revenue tariff, would be that
they received under it, only five timesas
much in bounties as they paid in taxes
and bounties united! And what under
theie cijcumstatces do -hey modestly de
mand of the federal goveimient and of a
free 'trade dertocratic. amaaistration!?
i'pqy. _haghbotip!y of twety -per
ni resuling from a ire;V'-c duty, be
raised to'fifiy by a protecna- duty, swell
ing their clear and real icine derived
from the system of fede . mxalion from
eighty to twenty three thousand dollars!
Tl.is plain statemiient literally exhibits the
character, not only of the protective duties
upon sugar and iron, but of the whole
system of protective monopoly, and I am
sure no honest patriot can think of the un
just. iniquitous and audacious demand
made by those bloated and heartless plun
derers, that the administration should sa
crifice their principles and the vital inter
ests of the people. to seccre their allegi
ance, for the support of the followers and
victims, whom they at the same time de
ceive and plunder, nithout feeling his
blood boil in his veins, with the warmest
indignation.
Taking a more comprehensive view of
the subject, it may be stated as a fact that
the greater part of the revenue from im
ports, in derived from duties on the class
of protected articles, principally sugar,
iron, and ir-in niuntifactures, cotten man
ufactures and woolen manufactures.
Now all these interests are united togeth
er in a plundering cotfederacy upon the
people, that each may rob the other, that
all may rob the community at large. As
I have before stated. each of them would
receive at least five tlmes, some of them
twenty times as much as they pay. evetn
under a strict revenue system. Is it not
apparent, therefore, that to permit those
interests 'o controil Con::ress, in the mat
er of taxatiotn, would be to put the power
of taxation. the most important of all po
litical powers, in the hands of those who
have a deep pecuniary interest in increais
itig the taxes? If the manufacturing tn
tions of Europe would agree to supply
the federal revenue by a perpetual tribute
would these monopolists consent-to a total
repal of the duties on imports aiid free the
country from taxation? They certainly
would not. r'bey solemtly declare that
these duties, which are suirely taxes to '.he
country a-o essential to their- prosperity ;
that to reduce them from fifty to twenty
per cent would be0 injurious to them, hur
to repeal theta altogether- would be ab
solutely ruittous. Here, then, is a cotn
fession of what is apparetit wit hout it, that
those who receive the taxes, itmpudentfy
claim the prerogative of prescribing to the
governetnt what hurthens shall he im
posed on those who pay them! If we
submit tothese thtings, cari we claim to
live under a responsible, repr'eseauive re
public? It ought tiever to be forgotteni
that a system of taxation, by which three
fourths at least of the putlic revenue is
derived from dutties upon foreign -mann
factures, the like of which are extensive
ly produced in the United Suates, is the
most burubensomei and unequal of all the
known systems that now exist incivili::ed
nations, reduce and modify it as we may.
The whole of the duty imposed oti this
class of articles, is a discrimination against
the imported. anid in favor of home tmde
manufacture to the full extent of that du
ty. -
Now 'when we recollect that nll foreigt
imports, are 'as. truly' the productions of
domesticpindustry, as their home 'uade ri
vais-=and that the industry which acguiies
the foreigrxiia't cle isr as. mvch entitled to
ebe ipid frtn antiot as chat
which makes the -domestic article; it Wil
be seen ther the-very lowest rate of'reve
nue duties upon sugar and iron, and upo
all muunfactures of irou, cotton and tool
is an utijust discrimination in lavor of on
branch of domestic industry anti agains
another. The true point of equality ant
justice, -as I have always maintained
would be to impose the'sawe rate of duti
on the houie.tnade, that we impose on tih
imported manufacture. The ezen:ptiott
therefore, o1 our home mado anutfac
tures, from the duties imposed on thosi
a e imnport, is a muost liberal concessiu
grarutiously made by the people to tht
manufacturers; and that they tire not sat
isfied with this discrimination. is a proof
how feeble is the sense of gratitude amon
masses of men, when their intert sts are it
question. But our system it as burthetn
some as it is unequal. It may be safel)
stated stated that it imposes a pecuniary
burthen on the people three times as greal
as the amount of revenue it yields to the
rreasury. The duty on imported Cot
tou manufactures, for example may be
assumed to average 40 per cent, and thi
atiount imported set down at ten millions
This will yield a revenue of four millions
But the Cotton manufactures anuuall
produced ti the Uirited States and equally
enhanced in price with the foreign, by the
duty imposed on the latter, amount tc
thirty millions of dollars. Forty per col
on this gives us twelve millions as the
additional burthen imposed on the people
by the duty on Cotton manufaclures; t
that the people are subjected to a burtiten
of sixteen millions to obtain a revenue (if
four, paying to the cotionti manufacturers,
whu are now realizing from 20 to 40 per
cent on. their capital, three dollais for ev
ery one they pay to thrgovernment!
Now let us compare ihis4 duty on cotton
manufactures, with a like duty on ten and
coffee, which the inanufactuiers artfully
prevailed upon Canaress to exempt firomt
duty -altogether by the act of 1832. Let
us assume that w e annually import tea
and coffee t). the amount of ten millions
of dollars under a duty of 40 per cent.
This will yield a revenue precisely equal
to that derived front the duty on cotnon
manufactures. and will impose only olne
fourth of the hurthen-t on the people. The
inoney collected ait the customn htise
wouid be the lull mneasurc of thu popular
y A:. d yet it .is o feoF ie sii siW
of ime mamnufaciurers to let tea and coFfee
remain free of duty, in order to create a
iece-sity for incren4ing he duties on su
gnr, iron atid thu various manufactureo
embraced in the prutective zysitcm. Of
all foreign imports, tea and coffee ar.:
among the most proper subjects of a rev
enue duty, inasmuch as they yield tme
largest amout of revenue with the least
burthen of to the people, and that hurthen
is equally distributed among the consu
mers. But the manufacturers, who carry
theit manufactures to China to exchage
them for Tea, and to Brazil and Cuba
to exchange them for Coffee. understand
perfectly well the henefit of free trade, if
it benify confined to themselves. They
are likw Sir Robert Peel's fishermian, who
said to that minister, " I am a free trade
man, sir, but you must not touch the duty
on fish." I ative no doubt, therefote, that
a powerful effort will be made by the
manufacturers to induce Congress to vio
late the true principles of a revenue sys.
lem, and the solemn pledge contained in
the compromise act of 1833, by leaving
tea and cofi'e with the long list of foreign
imports used by them in manufacturing,
free of duty. lut this scheme, I am sure,
can receive no countenance from the ad
ministration. They will recommend no
discriminations, as we have been semi
officially informed, but with a vieWv t
revenue; and tupO:t every stound reveoue
principle 'he highest rate of duty shouilt
be laid 0upon such articles as are not made
in the United States. If this class were
sulliciently extexsive, the nihide of tiie
federal revenue should be drawn from it.
We should thus have no wealthy and in
fluential class, drawing princely income:
frotm the extorted contributions of tht
peopile, and stimnulatinig the governmen
to all sorts , I .exiravagant expenditure:
with a view to keep up a system of higt
and oppressive dties.
In any schiemecs which the adininistra
lion maiy preseit for adjustinig the trriff
I feel confid'ent that the leading featur<
will be the total aholition of tminimuni
and specific duties. These are frautdulen
conitrivanices that serve tio other purposes
but to deceive the people and disguidt
oppression. Let us have ad ealoreeidu
ties that every body catn understand. Lei
-the people see the full exteut of thil
burthiens, andi if they must lie oppresseti
let it be -'so nomninated in. the bomd."
As thieae duties now stand, low priced ar
ticles comsutted byithe poor pay the high
es rates of duty. while those of tihe high
est price, cotnsumnetd by ihe tvu'althy, pay
the lowest rate. This is a fatal oibjectiom
to all specific duties. A yard of calico
for example, which cosis six cents ii
M-anchester, pays 9 cents duty; which i
150 per cent on its cost; while a yard a
the hinest- colored muslin which Costs 3(
cents, pa0ys only 9 ceuts,- eqjual to J30 pei
centton its'tost. These "revoilting delor
miuies maust be removed, and I feel assurem
that Mar. Polk will-cordialily co-operate it
the patrtotte labor
It is apptrent that die days of tmonopo
-ly and comttnercial restriction are trum
bered in all-the ctvilized inationis of the
earth .Even in Great Britain-so lon;
held up to ur by our inonopolistsas anrex
amtple for imitation-all parties nw comn
cur in the principles of- free trade,s ant
edife nily a to time amd wmanner of re
:rormiag cient-restrictions and abuses.
Aid perut me to say, that the day thal
2 shallvitnes% the downfall of commercial
,rentritotis and the establishment of free
Strade m ongthe nations of the varth, will
the The greuteii and most glorious era that
ever naraktse e progress of improve
ment ii u porul affairs -of man. It
should; be ambition of our statesmen
to a & ad in this great reform,
W hichi ined, as l.firmly believe. .to
contribuI. re to the liberty, prosperity
ahd pea f. the nations than any event
since ihe vent of our Saviour. In this
view of 'Ilt#Imject few men ever occupied
a more re sible position than-Mr. Polk,
aid I ha" very reason to beliee that he
filly reilith44ttat responsibility, and will
so far 016ilie his views above the risera
bloe schedies of mercenary monopolists
and factiots contending lir office as to
be equal i6 he occasina and fulfil the ex
peetactiinI6f his country.
-. Yours, &c.
GEO. McDUFFLE.
-THE PRESS.
The influence of the Press, from the
talent audblity with which it is at pres
eat cou'dilued,..furms one of the strong
est safegurils of freeduni, and is a more
poerfu hck-against corruption, than all
the ena uzntns againsi Legislative wis
dom haso8r tevisedf It would be ag
eVay a tdsk to establish the worship of the
Druids iIi ;s..couutiy, as to raise again
the old eorsa wtich have been qgruck
dow u. byih 'owerful arim of the Press.
A newspjki holds in its grasp the pass
tons an dpiidices, the virtues and vices
of the ttmus Its onice will therefore be
heard -flirj- t be not the original creator,
it is the i ifi eat distributor of public
opinion. the guide and enlightener
of the gove d. an a potent check ou
misrule the tru e aihakener of man,
and hias ber aduially aroug the pub
he mind n tb. great questions inivolv
ing teIai:ii friessanod wellare of society.
Of late'fe more full piwer has beei
exercis'ed byAhe Press, which has been
eflected by ?' ap Papers. penetrating the
great h f the community, enterirng
the wurksboj of the mechanic. beguilinu
the leiture' urs tit the laborer, and en
leighJte:ug .thet dark places of the land.
Ligtt an i have thus been poured
1 ifri .re- u upcnn Ihe-p ii
n114tructog I eir iguiorance, couiluering
bheir prej-idices, and stimilatiog thon to
actiun. When the -reat l:uglish States
man exulingly exclaimed in Parliament
that -- the Schoolmater is abroad, and I
trust to him armed with his Primei. a.
gainst tie soidier in full military array,"
be ev.dently alluded to the tremendious
power wielded by the Press on the sub
ject of popular education. The people
must have light,-the Press is the great
power by which light and truth, in resisi
less torrents, must be poured into the dark
and ignorant mind. In every hattlet,
village, and town, of our vast country.
Lyceums ar, springing up. Societies for
the diffusion of useful knowledgo are. es
tablished. which the Press has been in
strumental in elfecting; while at the same
time it prepares the public for that enjoy
ment and elevation of character, which a
rightfully directed inste will diffuse among
them.-Evening News.
Arrest of Counterfeiters.-We noticed
in our paper. a short tine since, the ar
rest of a part of a gang of counterfeiters
in Ketucky, by an agent sent for that
purpose by the South Western Rail Itoad
Bank of this city. We have since learn
ed, with great surprise, that the prisoners
were admitted to bail in the penalty of
i$400 each, principals and surity. 'Tis
extraordinary fact would say little for the
morals of Lincoln county, in Kentucky,
where the arrest took place, wvere it not
knowvn that this unprecedented act of the
Magistrates wvas most strongly and loud
ly reprobated by the whole community,
and there is reason to hope that certain
measures which the counsel for the Banks
had in view..would, with the aid of pnbd
lie opinien, lead to the confinement of the
culprets and their ultimate convictioW and
pishmn We also learn thatt suct
secret anid confidential iniformnation has
beeni received, designa ting-the persons and
purposes of the whole gang, which is prob
ably one of the most extended and besi
organized ever known in the country, thai
will lead to the breaking up and arrest of
the whole gang. The banks, we tinder.
stand, are pursuing the remaining mnem
hers of the gang with the utmost vigor;
andI, in addition to the prisoner noW in the
jail of Columbus. Geo., and the' rrrests it
Kentucky, two more of the am.a gang
have I~eeni taken up inr-diff'erent parts of
North Caroline,- anid are now in prison,
awaiting- their tiils- and the Banks ex'
peet soon to be advised of further arrest
in other sections of the United States.
*The only hills of the Bank of Charles
ton that heave been counterfeited are~t
Id.-ntmsihiations'f $20, undt we understn
SthecBank has been rapidly withdrawing
rtheta from dirculation) for some time'pasi
The bills oif the S. W. R. R. Bank thal
huave been -counterfeited we 'believe, arc
$100.-Counrr 2d inst.
Depopulalionl of the Sandwoich falands
---Fou-r hundredl persons, mostly natives
.died of epidemic influzenza-in the Sand
.wich'lslandsdoringi threat weeks ending ii
, the ornuth -of.A pril. last.4 This.is eqizalt
r fifty dleaths pe. clay in the city of Nev
York.-PatroL-.,
Eoj... , u nnensnteory ane.
FOREIGN V1EWS
From the New York Tribune Oct 4.
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER. FILtOM
EUROPE.
AaRIVAL OF ;rriE CAftnaA.
The steamship Cambria, Caipt. Judkins
arrived at the warf, in Boston, .oa Tihurs
day at half past 3. o'clock,. P. ., in 13
days from Liverpool, haviug left that port
on the 19th -t. at I o'clock, P. 3.,
The Cotton Market was. active at full
prices, with aspeculative. feeling.
Tie Mania for Railway - speculation
continues unabated in England, Prance
and other countries.
The steamship Great Britain, fromn this
port arrived ot Liverpool:Sej. 15,at7
o'clock, A, M., she sailed Aug.30th.
The disease amongst thd potatue crop
seems to be universal; it has attackted the
esculent simultaueously in Great Britain,
and on the European as it did last year
on thu American continent. Severalsut;
gestions have been thrown out for reme
dying the evil, the most practical of which
has been put forth by a farmer. of Disqel
dorf; he recommends harrowing deeply
the earth in which the tubercles are plan'
ted. This plan.,it is said, produce evap
rout ion,.by.which the humidity caused by
the feraientation will disappear. Some
diatricts have escaped the ravages of the
disease, but the injury is too w.de spread
not to cause alarm. O'n the European
continent the potatoe crop has been all
but destroyed, and in Holland, Belgium,
and the North of France, the most serious
fears were entertained-so serious that the
exportation of food was rigidly prohibited;
and all duties on the importation of it res
cinded.
The present excited state of affairs in
the United Statee, arising out.of the Mex
ican dispute, und the feeling, for no wise
or pacific purpose, has been evoked to
prevent a speedy and satisfactory adjust
ment of twe Oregon question-these cow
Jined causes are said to have determined
the English Government to increase ma
terially their force in Canada and the
North Amertcan colonies.
Atmospheric Railway.-E xperi mnent a\
trips navo been made on the Croyvion
Annospherie Rail, n hich, wvi:n aellowie
for the fact that every thatig is uut A-in
-cuT pTonerwoking, have beetn very satis
fuctory. The hue is five . miles long, ex
tending fIbm the Dartmouth arms to Croy
dol.- I'be average speed, ooly, on: en
giuo being emploped for the five miles,
was tlirty miles an hour; the greatest ve
locity. fobrty.-five. A greater speed was
attained otn Friday. The train passed up
the viaduct across the Brighton line,
which has an incline of I in 50, at the
same rate as the others partis. In a report
to the Directors, Mr. Sainuda, the Engi
neer, remarks : "A speed of seventy,
miles per hour has been attained with a
train of six carriages, and a speed of thirty
miles per hour witl- a train of'sixteen car
riages, using only one steam engine ever
two sections of minu. In a length of five
miles we have round it practicable to ob
tail a vaccuum of twentyseven. inches in
the whole length, aid have run trains at
upwards of sixty miles an hour over the
five miles, with aid one engine only."
FRANcE..
Paris, Sept. 16.-Mlexico and the Uni
ted States have again occupied much,of
the Parisian journalists; but all that has
been said may be summed-up thus-either
that there will be no war at all, or that,
if a war,the United States will complete
ly crush their puny adversary. The re
cent arrivals from. Mexico have caused
some little surprise, lbr they shov that
England is desirous that peace be main
tained, whereas it was thought that site
would not only inicite Mexico to hostilities,
but supply the nyeacs for carrying them
on.
.A treaty for the mutual extradition nf
criminals sitmilar to that in force between
England and the United States, has just
been concluded bet ween France and Prus
sum.
Fresh interest has been attached to the
long agitated qunestion of the piercing and
cutting through the Iathmus of Panama,
by the .remarks made thereupon by.'the
National Intelligeneer, of Washingto",
and other journals. After an exanminatoin
of recommendations by American engi
neers, the Parisian sournals assure their
American cotemnporaries that they are
mistaken in suppositng that France apd
England want to monopolize the gigantic
unadertakinig, and with it the ~igantic ad -
vantages, of~ cutting thi-o'ouhi the neck of
land which separates the two oceans.
Aumerica, they say, has, both as a mari
time andi a powerful nation, an indispata.
bleriglit to be associated in whatever may
be undertaken by France alone, or by
France and England united, for the ac
complishment of this object.
It appears from a return in the Mon ite
ter ofthe state of the beet-robt' sugar man
ufactories, tliai, abhoughi the number of
them is reduced. 31, comy~ared with last
year, most of those that remnaitn are in
prosperity, and the amont of duties recei-.
ved by the Treasury, has increased- near
ly a million and~a half of francs.
~The great Northern Railway, which
will unite Paristwith Belgium, and .ith
IEngland, lias adjudged to a company, at
the head of'which is M. Rothseciild,_,Ir
ing Brothers, and thetcshiefs of oghergr
morcantile houses-at $nglandnlanc France,
the 1ujghish rathter preponderaling .
The yonga Prince de Monuort, ndpbe'
*olVlNapoleon, has quitted ari..ZThq
Goveranent is understood folIkvi illien
him ordersa.to leave, basen ifs
promise was made to him thast
which exile him andall his f'lrfo
France, shall. be repealed, ri
modified. His cousin, Louis Napol q
still rnsains-in the. Chatea ofHau
where he hai been confined for.0vyear
for his attempt'at an invasion of 'r-ance',
Madrid Sept. 9..40n the evening ofh,
4th, number ofdisailected poiAoti satip
ted to create an -isurrection. Soei
the officers and men of the Reg't of..ia
re, had previously been gained yer
thd. egimeun! remained' trueand,[on
word of .cotitaud, pouied a m'urdsrwj
Gre on the asailanis. An ofiwer4Yas
killed,. and several person were wo'uied.'e
The- troops having. subselueutlyisaal
from the barracks, the insurgenis were u
to flight and several weie.-arrested.f -
drid then became tranquill, and still
mains so.
A1. Theirs, the emineni ireneli, It .,
man, has arrived in..Madrid, d6d s hein
fated with all fthe honors.
Discatiery of Mosaic.-Three valuable
6ifosaics have been discoversd at>a, e
France, in addition o
ered there lai yeafh - They bivei: beio
part only uncoveWed; as-yet, butisffiietj
ly to.inluce their entire design to a':cors'
mission of savatns and artists .who ree'r
ly. visited them. " The central osad 1
says, the account, ".was the b
great admiration. The 'utmost luxury. 04 i.
decoration-colors.- of extreme'hufy,
and designs infinitely varied.' bave been
expended on it. Figures, of birds;fishe,4 . C:
of many kinds,:dolphins, fruits.- rosesof -
antique forais, &c. are multiplied':over-its
surface, and mightserve," it is obseve
"as magnificent .models for the oinamen,
tal painters., Sliibhei -of some of thea
ornaments were made for the-purpose of
being tranuinitted to the ministerwhoise
department has charge -of the arts an'
monuments of thie kingdom.- "'
Fire in King Street.-A fire- broke out
between 9 and 10 o'clock on on Saturday
evening, in ile one..itory brick building
(contaiuing two front Stores.) occupied by
M1r. Charles Pemble, fur the sale of .Dry
Goods, at No. 252, and Mri-Thom son,
for the sale of Seed, . No
s:reet;-oaxrue"Edsid v - -
of Wentworth street. The store ieds
closed all the evening, and Mr, P. was
absent at the time the smoke was discov
ered issuing from the crevices of his,doors.
and windows; by persons passing. In
order to obtain ingrems, holes were made
in the tin roof, and the engines were thus
enabled to drench the place well with waa "'k
ter, which, in about twenty minutes, qielteR.
ed both flame and smoke. We -have
heard that the Stock was insured for S3
500-1mout of it was destroyei, or serious
ly damaged.
The result of this fire is a practical.il[ '
lustration of the utility of tin-roofiug, for-,
had the storos been coveredwith iiiloor- .
slate, the lowness of the roof-would cer
tainly have einlangered the..safety of the
adjoining premises, if it bad.'not. destroy
ed the new three story building now in.
cou.se of erection, immediately on the
Soutti of this store. As it has turned out,
hower, none of the adjacent ,property is
uninjured, and Mr. Pemnble's.-store*is' ?
merely unshelved-outside, it lopks-amoe 95
as good as new.-Southern Ptrioj 614
inst... -
Punishment for-Stealing.-Tbe-rinci -'
pie it always s'iould be borne iu mind i
ibe saie in stealing a smalfor larg'o
aounti,.alhough the injury-may beto a
greater orsmnaler degree. A very erious
instanice of.death and punishient foita
ing a tiiing. atlah- uccured 'recehtry i
Paris. A buy of 14 or 1.5 years old,4wtli
burned to deaih in the middle of- :h~
Seine, not far fron. Paris.. Hoeiad i '~
a few pi~eces of . quick lime, and :ha~~~
ced -the stolen articles under his .plousert ta
conceal it from observation. 'Juist as
was returning homie hoe ope agf'
comrades leading -some .harses toldi'
He asked the faivor of ridlinheof ttes'
which was immnediatelf granted$,,hen*
the two lads had led the hioises in(ia tif' T
river, that on whici the inuebfilfre.*TiA"
seated lost his footing,fand thtriit
thes w ater.' The, Jime- at ac/es
forment, anillaborti,. after: commeuce"
bi~rniig the unfortunate boy,-wshy.as i -
swain, cried out for aid, but inefeciiill
the spectators thinking, it a pica
santry on hiis. part.. Whens arriysat
bank tbe lime hadl burnt ista so dre~~ml-'t~ ~
ly that his bowels protruded. He of iid~- d
shortly after in great tortures
Forgetfullnsass.A writer in thei2 sor
Atlas retates-the folknvinug.-4.y oec
ticut lady, who was it thi$iigIiMa
wiays heaving something -or dtbet ~et
hier, whenevfer shewent on ~jiiJ,~
not long since promised -y"tr~uba~
thie presentrof a handsome hbawluo ~ V.
occasion of' her leaving hul ~
dashicaried eey thlingshew ~
witih lter' ?lhe ladygof course'eertediti '
heito thu gtmisig enddehgpairlik
towardrs thW'elal o i r bii desiknto
-Theyiaid-lty drcededemilehowive
aving efjy xhibited sjumptIms "
hidgetssnqgusual and' onf he b
iinqu-it as to the causelishentsclh
i" 'Goodness ge ol
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